{"nrhp_refnum":"91001677","name":"Long Island Rail Road Station at Farmingdale","other_names":["Farmingdale Railroad Station"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Along LIRR tracks between Farmingdale and Forest Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Farmingdale","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.73558733400006,"lon":-73.44178743299994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A brick railroad station on Farmingdale Avenue in the village of Farmingdale, Nassau County, New York. The one-story depot was built in 1896, and a two-and-one-half-story tower was added in 1910.","why_significant":"The station is argued to be a rare surviving hybrid of Long Island's railroad and interurban trolley eras. The 1910 tower housed the electrical substation for the cross-island trolley line between Huntington and Amityville. It was the only station on the line where the power facility was added onto an existing depot. It is also an example of Queen Anne-influenced small-village station design.","narrative":"Farmingdale's railroad station is a rectangular brick building on Farmingdale Avenue that combines two eras of Long Island transportation. The original one-story depot dates to 1896 and has broad overhanging eaves, passenger waiting sheds with turned posts, and Queen Anne-influenced details such as blind gable dormers and segmental-arched windows. In 1910 a two-and-one-half-story brick tower was attached to the west end to house an electrical substation for the cross-island trolley line from Huntington to Amityville, completed in 1909, with Farmingdale at its midpoint. The tower held a rotary converter and transformers that turned incoming alternating current into the direct current trolley motors used. The station was listed as locally significant for its role in rail and trolley transportation and for its unusual architecture, the only case on the line of a power facility added to an existing station. The trolley equipment is gone and the interior has been updated, but the exterior form remains largely intact, and the building still serves rail passengers.","period_of_significance":"c.1896 - 1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne, Edwardian","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a train depot. The trolley electrical equipment has been removed, the upper tower floors are empty with boarded windows, and the interior has been modernized.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.292798-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91001677.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001677/a68a6893a6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001677/a68a6893a6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"DanTD (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmingdale_LIRR_Station_West_Platform.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">DanTD (talk)</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farmingdale_LIRR_Station_West_Platform.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319139","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmingdale_station","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5435859"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/long-island-rail-road-station-at-farmingdale-91001677/"}